1. What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three in the evening?
Answer: A human. (Classic Sphinx riddle)

2. I’m always running but never move. What am I?
Answer: Time.

3. The more you take from me, the bigger I get. What am I?
Answer: A hole.

4. I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. What am I?
Answer: An echo.

5. I can fly without wings and cry without eyes. What am I?
Answer: A cloud.

6. I’m not alive, but I can grow. I don’t have lungs, but I need air. What am I?
Answer: Fire.

7. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Answer: Footsteps.

8. What has roots as nobody sees, is taller than trees, and up, up it goes but never grows?
Answer: A mountain.

9. I’m seen in the water if seen in the sky. I’m in the rainbow, a jay’s feather, and lapis lazuli. What am I?
Answer: The color blue.

10. I’m always hungry, I must be fed. The finger I touch will soon turn red. What am I?
Answer: Fire.

11. What can run but never walk, has a mouth but never talks?
Answer: A river.

12. I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?
Answer: A joke.

13. I am light as a feather, yet no man can hold me for long. What am I?
Answer: Breath.

14. I’m the beginning of the end and the end of time and space. What am I?
Answer: The letter “E.”

15. What has many keys but can’t open a lock?
Answer: A piano.

16. I’m taken from a mine and shut up in a wooden case, from which I’m never released, yet I’m used by almost every person. What am I?
Answer: Pencil lead.

17. I am always hungry and will die if not fed, but whatever I touch will soon turn red. What am I?
Answer: Fire.

18. I have cities but no houses, mountains but no trees, and water but no fish. What am I?
Answer: A map.

19. I’m not alive but can die, and I live only when I’m kept alive. What am I?
Answer: A battery.

20. I am invisible, weigh nothing, but if you put me in a barrel, it becomes lighter. What am I?
Answer: A hole.

21. What begins and has no end, and is the end of all that begins?
Answer: Death.

22. What belongs to you but is used by others more than you?
Answer: Your name.

23. I am always in front of you but can never be seen. What am I?
Answer: The future.

24. I can travel the world while staying in a corner. What am I?
Answer: A stamp.

25. I am born when you speak, and I die when you are silent. What am I?
Answer: An echo.

26. The more of this you take, the more you leave behind. What is it?
Answer: Footsteps.

27. What flies forever, rests never?
Answer: The wind.

28. What can’t be seen but can be heard, and will not speak until spoken to?
Answer: An echo.

29. I have a bed but never sleep, and I have a mouth but never eat. What am I?
Answer: A river.

30. What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?
Answer: An echo.

31. What devours all things — birds, beasts, flowers, and kings?
Answer: Time.

32. What has teeth but cannot bite?
Answer: A comb.

33. What always runs but never walks, often murmurs, never talks?
Answer: A brook.

34. I am not alive, but I grow; I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?
Answer: Fire.

35. What can bring back the dead, make us cry, make us laugh, make us young again?
Answer: Memories.

36. I have no feet but can travel a thousand miles. What am I?
Answer: The wind.

37. I have no life, but I can die. What am I?
Answer: A battery.

38. I hide in the light but show in the dark. What am I?
Answer: A shadow.

39. I can’t be burned in fire or drowned in water. What am I?
Answer: Ice.

40. I’m always moving but have no legs. What am I?
Answer: Time.

41. I start and end with the same letter, filled with letters in between. What am I?
Answer: An envelope.

42. What is easy to get into but hard to get out of?
Answer: Trouble.

43. What disappears the moment you say its name?
Answer: Silence.

44. I’m full of holes, yet I hold water. What am I?
Answer: A sponge.

45. I am taken from mines and locked up in a case, but almost everyone uses me. What am I?
Answer: Pencil lead.

46. What flies when it’s born, lies when it’s alive, and runs when it’s dead?
Answer: A snowflake.

47. What has a ring but no finger?
Answer: A telephone.

48. What runs all around a backyard yet never moves?
Answer: A fence.

49. I am always hungry but never eat. What am I?
Answer: Fire.

50. What word is always spelled incorrectly?
Answer: Incorrectly.

51. What can fly without wings and hit without hands?
Answer: Time.

52. I can bring tears to your eyes, resurrect the dead, make you smile, and reverse time. What am I?
Answer: A memory.

53. I live in the water but die on land. What am I?
Answer: A fish.

54. What’s black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?
Answer: Charcoal.

55. The more you take away from me, the larger I get. What am I?
Answer: A hole.

56. What’s something that everyone can open but nobody can close?
Answer: An egg.

57. What walks with no feet, whispers but never speaks, and touches but cannot be touched?
Answer: The wind.

58. I am there before you speak and gone after you are silent. What am I?
Answer: An echo.

59. What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Answer: Light.

60. What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
Answer: A clock.

61. I am taken from a mine and used to write. What am I?
Answer: Pencil lead.

62. I have keys but no locks, space but no room. What am I?
Answer: A keyboard.

63. What can you hold in your left hand but not in your right hand?
Answer: Your right elbow.

64. What begins with an “E” and ends with an “E,” but only has one letter inside?
Answer: An envelope.

65. I am not alive, yet I grow. I do not breathe, but I die if I drink. What am I?
Answer: Fire.

66. I am always coming but never arrive. What am I?
Answer: Tomorrow.

67. I am not a bird, but I can fly. I am not a river, but I can run. What am I?
Answer: Time.

68. What has a beginning but no end, and an end but no beginning?
Answer: A circle.

69. The more you take from it, the smaller it becomes. What is it?
Answer: A hole.

70. I have rivers but no water, forests but no trees, and cities but no buildings. What am I?
Answer: A map.

71. What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks?
Answer: Day breaks and night falls.

72. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter “M.”

73. I can’t talk, but I will reply when spoken to. What am I?
Answer: An echo.

74. What’s lighter than air but too heavy to hold for long?
Answer: Your breath.

75. What grows shorter the longer it lives?
Answer: A candle.

76. I am born of water but die in it. What am I?
Answer: Ice.

77. What can you break without touching?
Answer: A promise.

78. I am always hungry, must always be fed, and I die if I drink. What am I?
Answer: Fire.

79. I’m everywhere and nowhere, and everyone breathes me. What am I?
Answer: Air.

80. What’s something that can’t be seen, can’t be felt, but can destroy everything?
Answer: Time.

81. I’m made of water, but if you put me into water, I die. What am I?
Answer: Ice.

82. What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Answer: Short.

83. I am always ahead of you, but you can’t see me. What am I?
Answer: The future.

84. What has one eye but cannot see?
Answer: A needle.

85. What comes down but never goes up?
Answer: Rain.

86. I’m seen once in a year, twice in a week, but never in a day. What am I?
Answer: The letter “E.”

87. I am not alive, but I can grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air. What am I?
Answer: Fire.

88. What can’t be used until it’s broken?
Answer: An egg.

89. What has many eyes but cannot see?
Answer: A potato.

90. What’s something that belongs to you but is used more by others?
Answer: Your name.

91. What has words but never speaks?
Answer: A book.

92. What’s something that moves faster the harder you chase it?
Answer: Your shadow.

93. What can’t talk but tells you stories?
Answer: A book.

94. What has a heart that doesn’t beat?
Answer: An artichoke.

95. I’m as light as air but can crush mountains. What am I?
Answer: Time.

96. What has a tongue but can’t taste?
Answer: A shoe.

97. What is made of words but never speaks?
Answer: A book.

98. What can’t walk but can run forever?
Answer: A river.

99. What comes up but never goes down?
Answer: Your age.

100. I am ancient, wise, and full of secrets; my words are puzzles that guard the truth. What am I?
Answer: The Sphinx.